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Never a Man Spake Like This Man
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George Jeffreys (1889–1962). Born on February 28, 1889, in Nantyffylon, Maesteg, Wales, to Thomas and Kezia Jeffreys, George Jeffreys was a Welsh evangelist and founder of the Elim Pentecostal Church. One of eight sons in a mining family, he faced early hardships, including a speech impediment and facial paralysis, and the loss of four brothers, a sister, and his father. Converted at 15 during the 1904–1905 Welsh Revival under Glasnant Jones, alongside his brother Stephen, he embraced Christianity with zeal. Initially skeptical of Pentecostalism, he was baptized in the Holy Spirit in 1911 after his nephew Edward spoke in tongues, overcoming his speech issues. Mentored by Cecil Polhill and trained at Thomas Myerscough’s Pentecostal Missionary Union Bible School, Jeffreys began preaching in 1913, founding the Elim Evangelistic Band in Monaghan, Ireland, in 1915, which became the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance. His crusades, marked by reported healings and thousands of conversions, planted churches across the UK, including Belfast (1916) and London’s Clapham (1921), filling venues like the Royal Albert Hall. From 1934–1936, he saw 14,000 converts in Switzerland and preached at the 1939 Stockholm Pentecostal Conference. Author of Healing Rays (1932) and Pentecostal Rays (1933), he emphasized divine healing and biblical authority. Differences over church governance and his British Israelism led to his resignation from Elim in 1940, after which he founded the Bible-Pattern Church Fellowship in Nottingham, which declined after his death. Married late in life, he had no children. Jeffreys died on January 26, 1962, in London, saying, “Revival begins when Jesus is exalted.”
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The video is a sermon transcript about the preaching of Jesus and the power of his words. It highlights the miracles performed by Jesus, such as healing the blind, lame, deaf, and dumb, and even raising the dead. Jesus used various illustrations, such as the wheat in the field, the birds of the air, the prodigal son, and the lost sheep, to convey his message to his followers. The main purpose of Jesus' coming into the world was to bring salvation to mankind, which he described in different ways, including as a gift, a well of living water, and a new birth. The sermon emphasizes the inability of humans to save themselves and the power of Jesus' words, which were confirmed by signs and wonders.
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Never man spake like this man. The officers who were sent to arrest the preacher of Nazareth were committed to no ordinary task. The power of his word was irresistible. All human authority seemed to wane in his presence, and instead of arresting him, they were confessively arrested themselves. True, his message was simple, and his language that of the common people. But they were clothed with divine anshun, and confirmed by signs and wonders. The blind saw, the lame walked, the deaf heard, the dumb spake, and even the dead came forth at the sound of his voice. For illustrations, he used the wheat in the field, the birds of the air, the prodigal son in the far-off land, and the sheep that had strayed. Yea, they were drawn from every realm in order to reach the heart and mind of his heroes. The main purpose for which he had come into the world was that men might be saved, and he presented the way of salvation in various aspects. To one, salvation was likened to a gift, full and free, without money and without price. To another, as a well of living water, springing up within that would never run dry. To a teacher in Israel, he described it as a new birth, whereby a person becomes a partaker of divine nature. The one thing he definitely emphasized was the inability of men to save themselves. Jesus of Nazareth was cut off out of the land of the living, but his voice was not silenced. Mary heard it on the resurrection morning. Listen, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and your God. And again the disciples heard it when he declared, Peace be unto you. Jesus still speaks. His voice is heard by the penitent today. Thy sins be forgiven thee, and also by the believer. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Just as clearly as it was when said of him, Never man spake like this man.
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George Jeffreys (1889–1962). Born on February 28, 1889, in Nantyffylon, Maesteg, Wales, to Thomas and Kezia Jeffreys, George Jeffreys was a Welsh evangelist and founder of the Elim Pentecostal Church. One of eight sons in a mining family, he faced early hardships, including a speech impediment and facial paralysis, and the loss of four brothers, a sister, and his father. Converted at 15 during the 1904–1905 Welsh Revival under Glasnant Jones, alongside his brother Stephen, he embraced Christianity with zeal. Initially skeptical of Pentecostalism, he was baptized in the Holy Spirit in 1911 after his nephew Edward spoke in tongues, overcoming his speech issues. Mentored by Cecil Polhill and trained at Thomas Myerscough’s Pentecostal Missionary Union Bible School, Jeffreys began preaching in 1913, founding the Elim Evangelistic Band in Monaghan, Ireland, in 1915, which became the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance. His crusades, marked by reported healings and thousands of conversions, planted churches across the UK, including Belfast (1916) and London’s Clapham (1921), filling venues like the Royal Albert Hall. From 1934–1936, he saw 14,000 converts in Switzerland and preached at the 1939 Stockholm Pentecostal Conference. Author of Healing Rays (1932) and Pentecostal Rays (1933), he emphasized divine healing and biblical authority. Differences over church governance and his British Israelism led to his resignation from Elim in 1940, after which he founded the Bible-Pattern Church Fellowship in Nottingham, which declined after his death. Married late in life, he had no children. Jeffreys died on January 26, 1962, in London, saying, “Revival begins when Jesus is exalted.”